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Brewery Weekly Checklist

Day-by-day recurring tasks for brewers and the head brewer, covering daily checks, packaging prep, and monthly inventory items.

Brewers Checklist - Monday
  1. Check spent grain bins and report to Devo.
  2. Call Willenta to schedule the week's pickups.
  3. Check CO2 and LPG amounts, ping Matt in Slack with levels.
  4. Call Liberty Gas to order LPG.
  5. Chemical inventory check - report to Matt if anything needs to be ordered.
  6. Daily temperature, gravity, and pH check on all active tanks.
  7. Canning day prep: cans, PakTeks, ends, and labels, 225 to 333.
  8. Print weekly shipments paperwork (if not done the previous Friday).
  9. 225 inventory.
  10. Keg fills and post splits, if applicable.
  11. Drive kegs from 333 to 225 and prep cold storage space for cans filled Tuesday.
  12. Blow down boiler at end of day.
Brewers Checklist - Tuesday
  1. Daily temperature, gravity, and pH check on all active tanks.
  2. Finalize pallets for Wednesday shipments - wrapped, paperwork attached, ready to ship.
  3. Blow down boiler at end of day.
Brewers Checklist - Wednesday
  1. Physically count packaging materials, report numbers in Slack and ping Matt.
  2. Mid-week clean cooperage count - report numbers in Slack and ping Matt.
  3. Daily temperature, gravity, and pH check on all active tanks.
  4. Carb checks on next week's packaging brands - start carbing if low.
  5. Quality check and tasting notes (if needed) for next week's packaging brands.
  6. Blow down boiler at end of day.
Brewers Checklist - Thursday
  1. Blow down boiler at end of day.
  2. Daily temperature, gravity, and pH check on all active tanks.
Brewers Checklist - Friday
  1. Confirm the whiteboard is accurate.
  2. End-of-week clean cooperage count (second of the week) - report numbers in Slack and ping Matt.
  3. Create hop pick list.
  4. Pull hops for the following week's brews/dry hops and bring to 333.
  5. Finalize carbs for the upcoming week.
  6. Sanitize keg fillers for Monday packaging.
  7. Print stickers for the following week.
  8. Print weekly shipments paperwork (if ready).
  9. Tasting notes for new beers.
  10. Blow down boiler at end of day.
  11. Daily temperature, gravity, and pH check on all active tanks.
Canning Day Checklist
  1. Confirm carbs first thing in the morning.
  2. Prep all shipments during packaging.
  3. Report final packaging numbers in #packaging-splits-brooklyn.
Monthly Checklist
  1. Hop inventory - add to Inventory tab, ping Matt when finished.
  2. Malt inventory - add to Inventory tab, ping Matt when finished.
  3. Check glycol level and reading, add to Glycol Tracker doc.
Brew Day Checklist
  1. Blow down boiler.
  2. Clean brewhouse and hoses.
  3. Set FV temp.
  4. Make sure the blowoff arm is open and in sanitizer.
Head Brewer Planning Checklist

Monday: Order packaging materials through Lindenmeyer (the week prior to canning). Follow up with Union/Microstar to confirm cooperage inbound (on weeks cooperage was ordered). Submit the week's cooperage cleaning numbers to #cooperage-planning.

Tuesday: On canning days, take final packaging numbers from #packaging-splits, add to Batch Splits, and reduce inventory. On brew days, reduce malt, hops, and dry hops inventory.

Wednesday: On brew days, reduce malt, hops, and dry hops inventory. Reconcile packaging material numbers in inventory on canning weeks.

Thursday: On brew days, reduce malt, hops, and dry hops inventory.

Friday: On brew days, reduce malt, hops, and dry hops inventory. Create and finalize brew sheets for the upcoming week.

Weekly: Write and send brewery education emails. Prep for weekly meetings.

Monthly: Reconcile end-of-month hop and malt inventory numbers.

If something goes wrong

If a recurring task gets missed, note it in the relevant Slack channel so the next person in the rotation knows to catch it up - don't just skip to the following week.

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